Ten penguin chicks born at wildlife park

Ten rare Humboldt Penguin chicks have been born at Curraghs Wildlife Park.

The younglings are now being reared by their parents in special nesting boxes before they're big enough to venture out into the main enclosure to greet visitors.

The park's General Manager, Kathleen Graham, is calling it a 'major success story', saying the penguin colony had not bred in years before one chick was born in 2018, four last year and ten this time around.

Humboldt penguins are classed as vulnerable by the International Union for the Conservation of Nature, and the Park is also raising funds to boost Humboldt penguins in the wild. 

This year it will attempt to raise £2,000 through its Conservation fund for the charity Sphenisco.